The AE (198) character

[RX Maverick]

I have a text file with the AE character in it when I try to read it with File.ReadAllText it does not read the character (it just removes it). I have tried File.ReadAllBytes(PATH/FILENAME.txt).replace(chr(198),"AE") and a couple other Replace ideas and so far nothing has worked. The only method I have found that works is: Bytes = File.ReadAllBytes("PATH/FILENAME.txt") For i = 0 To Bytes.Length - 1 TextFile += Chr(Bytes(i)) Next This is horribly inefficient but does work... Any better ideas?

[Guffa]

Use the overload of the ReadAllText method that takes an encoding to specify the encoding that was used to create the file. Example: text = File.ReadAllText(path, Encoding.UTF8)

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